ABDA Blog
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Local Knowledge: Covers Customised for the Australian Market
So a publisher wants to remake an overseas book cover for Australian shops. What are they thinking? What are the designers thinking? Why is a cover good for one place but not another? Australian designers reveal the local knowledge behind… Read more
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Q & A with Murray Batten
Murray Batten is one of two designers shortlisted in the Young Designer of the Year category for the Australian Book Design Awards 2016.
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Head of Design, HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins Publishers is seeking a new Head of Design. Reporting to the Director of Publishing Operations, this role requires proven design skills as well as the desire to lead and guide a creative team towards continued visual excellence. Key responsibilities include:…
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Laura Thomas Joins Scribe
Laura Thomas has joined the team at Scribe Publications this week, working in the role of Senior Designer. Prior to this move Laura worked at Penguin for almost nine years. Miriam Rosenbloom, Scribe’s Art Director, says ‘Laura is…
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Jessica Hische in Australia
Jessica Hische (USA) is one of most exciting illustrators & designers working today. ABDA was thrilled when she agreed to be the join the judging panel for the 2016 Australian Book Design Awards and we were equally excited when we…
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A Tribute to George Dale
We were very saddened to learn in late March that legendary book designer George Dale had passed away. A tremendous talent and a towering figure in the community, George will be greatly missed. Here friends and colleagues Bob Sessions and…
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ABDA On Display in Newcastle
With the support the Australian Academic Design Libraries, the shortlisted and winning books from 2015 Australian Book Design Awards have spent the past 10 months travelling the country. Starting at Southern Cross University’s Lismore Campus in June, an exhibition…
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Three Cheers for Two Years of ABDA
21 March 2016 marks ABDA’s second birthday. It’s been a busy two years since we incorporated. Due to a quirk of timing we’ve already held three annual Design Awards (!), with the next one in May. These have been…
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Julia Hasting: The Unusual Book Designer
Q: What’s a book designer’s dream job? A: To be tasked with making beautiful illustrated books employing unusual formats and treatments, and hey, don’t worry about the budget. As a young freelance designer in Karlsruhe, Germany, Julia Hasting wasn’t even sure…
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First Impressions
Each year, first-year Visual Communication students from the University of Technology Sydney are briefed to design a series of B-format book covers. Students choose a set of books from one of three literary genres: popular science, postcolonial fiction or science…